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The sententiousness, natural to his years and education, to some extent rebuked Winsome, who said more soberly: "Perhaps you have again lost your books of study?" "I do not always study in books," answered Ralph. Winsome continued to look at him as though waiting his explanation.
Why, who but the poet and myself? The poet ought to have told me that there were two houses in L- bearing the sign of the Arms, and that I must fight shy of the hotel and steer for the pot-house, and when I gave the order I certainly ought to have been a little more explicit; when I said a pint I ought to have added of ale. Sententiousness is a fine thing sometimes, but not always.
There were but few subjects on which he could not converse with understanding and a dash of wit; delivering himself slowly and with gusto like a man who enjoyed his own sententiousness. He was a dry, quick, pertinent debater, speaking with a small voice, and swinging on his heels to launch and emphasise an argument.
Her talk in her later years, and she lived down to the year of Leipsic, preserved the pointed sententiousness of earlier time.
"The use of a truly amiable woman is to make some honest man happy," Ransom said, with a sententiousness of which he was perfectly aware. It was so marked that it caused her to stop short in the middle of the broad walk, while she looked at him with shining eyes. "See here, Mr. Ransom, do you know what strikes me?" she exclaimed. "The interest you take in me isn't really controversial a bit.
His humour of sententiousness and doctorial stilts is a mask he delights in, but you ought to know him and not be frightened by it. If you sat with him an hour at a Latin task, and if you took his hand and told him you could not leave him, and no tears! he would answer you at once.
And of course, Primrose," with a certain amused meaning, "you will never rest until I am of your way of thinking and have forsworn the king. Must I become a Quaker as well?" "Nay, that is as thou pleasest," she said with a kind of gay sententiousness. All of life was not quite over for him, Philemon Nevitt decided when he went back to Mrs. Grayson's house.
"I hope you have not kept us all this time for nothing: you have had some success, I trust?" said Miss Todd to Bertram, in a laughing whisper. Miss Todd's face was quite joyous as she whispered; but then her face was always joyous. "I certainly have not done that which I intended to do," said Bertram, with mock sententiousness. "And so far I have been unsuccessful."
The combination of quaint sententiousness with deep enthusiasm, which he found in the old poet, met his conception of what a practical poem should be.
'Regularly tamed, said Charles. He is something more like his old self to-day than last night, and yet not much. He was perfectly overpowered then so knocked up that there was no judging of him. To-day he has all his sedateness and scrupulous attention, but all like a shadow of former time not a morsel of sententiousness, and seeming positively grateful to be treated in the old fashion.
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